Eric Frank Russell

esp v.	1949 E. F. Russell Glass Eye in Astounding Science Fiction Mar. 41/1 Eenif gestured toward the metal wall through which both of them could esp the new world in all its glowing colors.
needle v.	1943 E. F. Russell Symbiotica in Astounding Science-Fiction Oct. 152/2 These things were the remains of the two natives he’d needled, but the needlers had not caused that awful rotting of the flesh.
tight-beamed adj.	1951 E. F. Russell Star Watchers in Startling Stories Nov. 45/1 He send out a powerful, tight-beamed mind call far below the normal telepathic band. ‘Charles!’